Next year, a debate as old as Darwin could be revived in Texas. The State Board of Education is scheduled to review science materials in summer 2013, when Amarillo attorney Marty Rowley, Amarillo Independent School District board president Anette Carlisle and a handful of other contenders for seats on the panel hope to stir anew efforts to kindle classroom discussion of alternatives to evolution.

AUSTIN - The Texas railroad commissioner race headlined by a longtime Pampa legislator and the daughter of a former House speaker is getting more scrutiny than usual in the May 29 Republican primary. Rep.

AUSTIN - Four Republican candidates hope to represent the vast Texas House District 68 in the May 29 primaries. The redrawn district covers 22 counties, more than 300 miles from east to west and almost the same distance from north to south.